I don’t know why you are so concerned with an animation on a plane you don’t even have. It’s a nice touch for the model, but the fact that they added it at all is a bonus, not some necessity.
In real world if the F-15 didn’t have variable intake geometry, not only would it not have proper air access to the engine, but it would also have more trim drag and worse fuselage flow. Variable geometry is the key to the performance and characteristics of the F-15. That’s why it’s important that visually it’s there, albeit with a bit of slow adjustment.
? Where
Where what? AIM-7E or inlet?
The 7E. F-15 doesn’t have a CW illuminator nor there’s any mention of it in the -34.
I found that the first planes had AIM-7E, because they were not available /introduced AIM-7F. AIM-7E was not a major expansion on F-15 probably only in training
Yes but where?
7F got introduced with the F15 in USAF in 76(mass production by 75) and I don’t believe supply was an issue as they were getting sent overseas(israel) aswell.
Not even for training, you have CATMs for that.
As a matter of fact, the ability to carry(guide) sparrow Es was discarded from the requirements before production
So non, don’t think so. As a dummy, perhaps and that is a far stretch statement
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Most detailed article on the early F-15, published in the June 1975 issue of International Defense Review, only mentions the AIM-7F. AIM-7E-2 was only a requirements early in development.
I would like to point out that the Soviet guidebooks to Western aircraft did not only consist of intelligence material. They also quoted from publicly published military magazines and books to produce their manuals.
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I just love the dark eagle look
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I don’t think they move above Mach 1, and if they do it is barely at all.
I found this in the F-15 book by Gething/Crickmore, page 38 I quote :
The more agile AIM-7E2 which was part of the armament of the first series of the F-15… end of quote.
The first introduction of the Eagle was on November 14, 1974 with the 555th TFS “Triple Nickel”. I think these few F-15s had the AIM-7E because the AIM-7F was not available.
These first F-15s were intended for familiarization with the aircraft and initial training
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They move at supersonic speeds too, the difference is the smaller AoA angles
IMO he got it wrong on that. Bunch of documentation stating it can’t(Guidance - pulsed vs CW) and never did(manuals, SAC etc), the required ability to do so was dropped(even as a backup to the F as above) 7 months after McDonnell won the contract.
I’d be careful with books like that unless you can cross reference. It leads to fairy tales like those told by Yefim Gordon to be spread and taken as gospel.
This is the only source so far that says the first planes had the AIM-7E2, I’m going through the others. Yefim Gordon strikes me as “slightly” biased in his book on the Su-27
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Im going to buy the AeroSeries 23 James Perry Stevenson. The F-14 book was well written and factual with lots of information you can confirm if you look at manuals and other stuff. On couple pages of the F-15 book, I recognize several pictures from the -34, and flight manual.
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I’ll check again when I get home, but I don’t think they move above Mach 1 in game currently.
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I have the J.P. Stevenson F-15 book, I also have the one on the F-14, and The Pentagon Paradox by him. He’s getting too much towards Fighter Mafia in his last book, but I like his books and his factografic style.
I have YXY things to read about the F-15, I’ll be going through them.
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I checked the 1974 manual for the F-15 and there is no mention of the AIM-7E. So I would end this “Urban Legend”.
Please explain the difference between AIM-7E and F guidance. For dummies.
electronics wise the 7f had solid state but the difference between them is the 7F has a sustainer